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  1. 3 hours ago, Telegraph_it said:

    Garmins finally arrived. 
     

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    What flavor is it? I played with the G5000 model and it was nice. SA for days, but that was several years ago. 

  2. 4 hours ago, Red Five said:

    Scipio touched on this, but we seem to play Broughton a lot in short yardage/goal line situations. Why?

    Because it works on a white board. Among our many…curious defensive strategies seems to be one where any 11 bodies on the field have the same value as any other 11 bodies on the field, and that the base package is a legitimate way to play short yardage defense. 
     

    PK needs his make right guy, because he seems to be pretty tone deaf to the game in very obvious situations. We apparently have no one on staff capable of cutting out his headset and overriding some of his less well considered decisions.

  3. On 10/15/2022 at 7:55 AM, 52-80 said:

    Snow crabs: taste like crab; talk like people

    You’re close, but not a single person has posited the most likely culprit. 

     

     

    Crab People.

     

    Go to Walmart late at night and tell me that some of those shellbacked monsters perusing the aisles aren’t actually overgrown crustaceans. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Hook1997 said:

    He re-injured his shoulder and it made him over throw every pass?  That doesn’t really jive.  

    Think about your left clavicle hurting like hell and then trying to drive a football with your right hand. Ewers throws at all speeds, but he was throwing a lot of floaters and seemed to lack zip on the ball. His wheel to Bijan and the final interception off of JTS had some heat, but it didn’t look right all afternoon. Perhaps why he often back footed a lot of throws at the first sign of pressure. 
     

    He hit Billingsley on that cross late, and it looked like he labored to do it. 
     

    It’s pure conjecture, but I’m curious if he aggravated his injury from earlier in the season  

     

     

  5. 15 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

    Um...Noel is pretty good. Torched Baylor. Scored two TDs against us. Seems viable.

    Sure if they had one guy, but when there are two it gets a little more difficult.

    He is pretty good. I thought so when I saw the game. Both of his scores were on coverage busts. 
     

    I’m fine if we fail when their second best option beats us after we take away their best option. We were trying to do something smart and didn’t have the horses to pull it off. Ok. It was pretty much the Hutchison show or bust for the last two quarters of the game. 
     

    Taking away Worthy really puts a lid on our scoring potential. I’m fine with doing that to other teams. Particularly ones that aren’t good on offense to begin with. 

  6. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Unforced errors are unforced errors.  Yes, we as Texas fans like to put on our hairshirts and self-flaggelate, but Cain's bumbles were just as bad as 8's.  Each side failed to convert at least one TD.  

    It's a wash.  Don't be the typical Texas fan.

    You’re conflating my side eye at our defensive foibles with some idea that I didn’t see Cain’s issues or a few other missed opportunities to put the game away in a more comfortable manner. 
     

    In the context of the game we both flubbed sure fire easy 6’s. In the context of the argument at hand we did diddly to stop their only real weapon from having a career day. We’re finally getting some breaks to go our way. That’s nice. It doesn’t mean I don’t see us failing to even try to do some intelligent things to limit their only viable means of moving the football. 

  7. 1 hour ago, Codaxx said:

    I think the point Bobby is making is that everyone knew ISU had 1 dangerous player. A good defensive plan will do everything in its power to take the offense’s #1 player/play out or at least minimize the damage. Texas failed to do that and nothing can change that reality.  The is bit of a reoccurring issue with PK in that regard. The defense was lost vs Riley’s bread and butter counter last year. I believe a page or 2 ago I said the biggest difference between the offensive staff and defensive staff is game prep. This situation applies. 

    This. My post above was cutoff before o could edit it. 
     

    Coverage busts aside, could anyone see a discernible coherent strategy to limit Hutchison’s effectiveness?

    I sure couldn’t. 
     

    We do weird shit on defense. Play honest fronts with two deep safeties at incredibly inappropriate  times, substitute bizarrely, and default to sit and take it mode.  I understand that we don’t have a single edge that gives an OC a hint of heartburn, and that our coverage between the corners is adventuresome at best. Noted. I can deal with failure due to lack of Jimmy’s and Joes despite intelligent attempts to take away things the opponent does well. I see us lacking the players and just doing what we do. 
     

    Sometimes we do what we do well. Sometimes what we do intersects nicely with the opponent and we look pretty good. And then sometimes the opponent is less cooperative. And still we do what we do. 

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  8. 2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    It's not like we didn't suffer from Cain making two boneheaded plays, either.

    Cain wasn’t in danger of single handedly taking over the game while keeping their offense alive. 
     

    Yes, both teams had pretty sure big gainers flubbed, but that wasn’t the point. Their big WR should have gone for 11 catches and 200 yards against us. 

  9. 13 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    I’m not denying Hutchinson went off against us, but he was averaging 9.5 receptions for 100 yards per game heading into our matchup. He went for 10 catches and 156 yards Saturday. He’s a good player who Iowa State has found a way to force feed all year despite teams knowing he is all they have.

    He’s really good when he’s singled up or lonely in the middle of the field. 
     

    That’s my point. We did very little to make it difficult for him or his QB by having to get past his first read.

    Hutchison is going to get his catches  if he gets 10

    of then for 8-9 yards a reception instead of 15 it’s a very different game. And we were one fortuitous drop from him having 200 yards on Saturday  

     

  10. 19 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    To be fair, it is a lot easier to notice schematic adjustments on offense versus on defense. The casual fan isn't going to notice a different coverage or a schematic adjustment with how a nickel plays.

    If it was as easy as "take away the one dude who's beating you time and again", then the previous 6 teams on Iowa State's schedule would have done it and Hutchinson wouldn't be leading the country in receptions. 

    Texas plays two high zone to near exclusivity. Obviously there are a lot of variations there. I can’t look live and decide if we’re in some form of quarters or whatever, but I can tell when we’re robbing underneath or throwing extra coverage one way. The big give away is the extra bodies around the r threat you’re trying by to diminish. 
     

    ISU had an offensive breakout against Texas. There’s a bit of difference between a given reviver catching 10 balls for 88 yards and 1 TD, and basically doubling that against us. Outlier performances happen. They just happen with regularity against us. 

  11. My uneducated eyes see us running our stuff down after down, and just changing out personnel as the adjustment. It’s certainly trying something, but it’s not doing everything in our power to take away the one dude who’s beating time and again. 
     

    I would be less critical of our approach if I saw us attempting that and failing. Ok, we asked them to beat us by making their second and third best option perform above their heads to beat us, or option one to make circus catches with two guys draped on him to win the play time and again. I’m not seeing that. Just trying different bodies to do the same thing. 

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  12. 8 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

    This is fair. Most of the second half I was bitching at the TV to cover Hutchinson.  Shade coverage to him. Put Jamison on him 1 on 1. Do something. Sark was explaining to the media that Worthy is seeing a lot of double teams just last week. Perhaps he should explain the concept to the defensive staff 

    At this point I’d settle for old school doubling somebody. Just show that you’re trying to make them beat you left handed. 

  13. We seem to operate in the “well someone else might beat us” train of thought with regard to taking away a team’s best offensive threat. So f’ing be it. Take away their best threat on third and PK, and if they complete it to option three and beat you on the series then tip you cap, and ask them to do it again. 
     

    We’re just situationally brain dead in those instances, and our defensive substitution packages deserve a fair share of ire too. 

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  14. 4 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

     

    Yeah, I’d say getting surprised by the wildcat/playing it with light boxes in 2 high was pretty bad, considering we knew their QB couldn’t pass to save his life. But at least we adjusted at half.
     

    We haven’t faced many good offenses and I think we have some personnel and scheme weaknesses that will be exploited in the second half of our schedule, but there’s no doubt our D has taken a big step forward this year. 

    I think being average was about  it anyone realistically hoped for. That paired with a legit offense has won this conference more than a few times. I can see the improvement. But our margin is razor thin. Probably enough to keep us from reaching our goal this year unless our offense plays out of its mind during a few critical games. 

  15. 1 minute ago, TheAuditor said:

    This right here.  I sat in the stadium after the first series where they shifted 11 out wide and wondered why in the hell we were still in 2 high shell with three man line.  I was ten beers in and knew that was the wrong call.  I think they overthink things sometimes.  

    It seems it’s PK’s default setting when something unexpected shows up. 
     

    I actually don’t fault him much for that. We see it all of the time when a semi-competent back up QB enters the game and the DC doesn’t have a cheat sheet for tendencies and strengths/weaknesses. 
     

    I wasn’t impressed that the concept surprised us for two quarters. But that’s a nit for another day much like us not being ready for a team to attempt a fourth down conversion against us even if they were all tricky and didn’t do it out of a conventional offensive formation (fake FG). 

  16. 3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Who is making in game adjustments then if he’s not talking to anyone? Sure appears our staff adjusted to the wildcat 

    I’m sure most competent staffs can sit down for 20 minutes during halftime and cobble together the basic strategies required to shut down a wildcat offense with no ability to complete a forward pass. 
     

    We didn’t look like we anticipated wildcat well which is pretty interesting given that we featured it ourselves when QE went down, and it took us 2 quarters to decide that playing 2 high coverage and honest fronts against it was stupid.  We shut it down once it was decide that their RB’s weren’t in fact going to slice and dice our secondary through the air. 

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  17. 19 hours ago, LonghornSean said:

    The Mizzou game is probably it, but one I don't often see mentioned is the aggy game from that year. I feel like there was a moment when we had them pinned deep in the NEZ and the crowd was lit as fuck. Obviously this was during the style points comparison with OU and the Big 12 title bid so the crowd was really lively.

    I think that was their last drive of the first half. They actually managed to move the ball, but we’re actually in negative yardage territory up to that point for the half. 
     

    I looked at my brother and asked if he’d ever seen a team have negative yardage at halftime.

     

     

  18. 9 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Wake & NCSU against Clemson.

    Clemson is a shadow of itself with coaching brain drain as its staff is siphoned off, reduced talent and a dude with NFL measurables, an offensive number of vowels in his last name and middling ability as a college QB taking snaps. They’ll get a train run on them if they meet a legitimate top 10 opponent at some point this season.

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  19. 1 hour ago, Codaxx said:

    FEI was Texas defense 22. SOS at #14. I think you are forgetting how bad early schedules are around the country. That said most stats are questionable until about week 7-8. If there is one I would lean towards it would be points per drive which has Texas at 32, which matches the eyes (solid, but certainly not a dominant defense)

    I think that’s more than anyone could have reasonably hoped for given last year’s disastrous defensive performance. I think the angst is mostly that we’re situationally stupid given our players’ abilities and the penchant for most college offenses being able to complete short passes against air. It’s irksome. This defense becomes more fun if we really get the offense humming and then opposing offenses have to try to score often using a lot of short gains.

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